The purpose of this study is to establish a gastric cancer registry. A registry is a database of information. With the registry, we can learn more about the genetic causes of gastric cancer in order to develop better methods of early diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of gastric cancers. As part of this study, you will be asked to join a registry of families who are affected with various forms of gastric cancer. These registries are important because they may help physicians better manage gastric cancer now and in the future. Participating in the Early Onset and Familial Gastric Cancer Registry can also be educational for families, since it will provide important information to patients, families, and physicians. All of this will help to further our understanding of genetic causes of gastric cancer and eventually, help determine better ways to diagnose, treat, and survey patients with gastric cancer and people who may have a higher risk for gastric cancer.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
971
Participation in the registry will consist of adequately completing the family history questionnaire (one per family) the gastric cancer risk factor questionnaire and providing a blood sample for future correlative studies. Registry participants (both Patient/Relative and Control cohorts) will be required to submit tissue (both normal and/or tumor) to create a Tissue and DNA repository. Select participants will be invited to undergo Genetic Counseling, eg. those participants who meet clinical criteria for HDGC.
University of Southern California - Norris Cancer Hospital
Los Angeles, California, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at Basking Ridge
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth
Middletown, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at Commack
Commack, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester
East White Plains, New York, United States
Queens Cancer Center of Queens Hospital
Jamaica, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center
Rockville Centre, New York, United States
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital
Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Create registry of families w/ early onset & familial gastric cancer for analysis of risk factors, family history and unidentified susceptibility genes. Create cohorts of pts w/ low genetic risk for the development of gastric cancer
Time frame: December 2010
To determine the incidence of CDH1 germline mutations among individuals with early onset or familial gastric cancer and their relatives.
Time frame: December 2010
To determine the gastric pathology evident from a single baseline endoscopic screen of unaffected first-degree relatives of a patient with EOGC or FGC.
Time frame: December 2010
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